Godfrey H. Thomson

Godfrey H. Thomson was a British psychologist known for his work on intelligence testing and statistical methods. He developed the Oxford Sentence Completion Test and contributed to understanding how intelligence is structured, emphasizing the importance of personality and individual differences. Thomson challenged the idea of a single, general intelligence factor, proposing instead that intelligence comprises multiple distinct abilities. His work laid foundational ideas in psychometrics, the science of measuring mental functions, influencing how psychologists assess cognitive skills and understand human intelligence in a more nuanced way.